> This hasn’t been attempted before The Soviets did something similar, just without as much effectiveness. Western leaders were never so stupid to treat indiv

> This hasn’t been attempted before The Soviets did something similar, just without as much effectiveness. Western leaders were never so stupid to treat individual soviet companies as though they were independent from the soviet government. One major difference is the PRC made lots of promises about liberalization during its accession to the WTO. While the PRC may not be very 'communist' per se, it is also not very 'capitalist.' In hindsight it was naivete for western leaders to accept promises of Chinese liberalization at face value.